Wilkos Feeling Hoppy , fermented out in less than 5 days

[Milesey]

Hi

I've done a 2 can feeling hoppy brew , 1kg of LME and both sachets of the supplied yeast.

Seems to have stopped fermenting or hopefully fermeted out after 5 days, no activity through air lock.

My home is warm throughout the day and perhaps drops to 15c at night.

It's 8 days in now so my thoughts are I'm going to drop in 50g of Williamette, leave another week , take some gravity readings and see what's what !

Am I on the right track ?

Thanks all

 

[MZonard]

Perfect!
Out of interest what was the OG? Sounds like a strong ale...

 

[Milesey]

Perfect!
Out of interest what was the OG? Sounds like a strong ale...

Think it was 1062 mate

 

[MZonard]

Nice one..!

 

[Random Badger]

Sounds like a plan to me. If you think the main fermentation activity has finished it would be interesting to know what the gravity reading is now.

 

[Milesey]

Sounds like a plan to me. If you think the main fermentation activity has finished it would be interesting to know what the gravity reading is now.

All a a look in morning

 

[Milesey]

Dropped the Williamette in last night and we are bubbling away again !!

 

[Milesey]

Sounds like a plan to me. If you think the main fermentation activity has finished it would be interesting to know what the gravity reading is now.

Still fermenting I think , well I hear activity but could be the hops I added last night and the hearings just come on !

I think ill end up with a 6,5 to 7% brew

 

[Milesey]

Oh and last night I thought sod it , so ordered another 50g of citra from CML to drop in for a few days before bottling !!

 

[Milesey]

Sounds like a plan to me. If you think the main fermentation activity has finished it would be interesting to know what the gravity reading is now.

Took a reading last night 1.010, added another 50g of citra

 

[clib]

How much did the brew cost?

 

[Milesey]

2 cans of feeling hoppy from wilkos (a gift to me I wouldn't use 2 cans of kit from wilkos at 16£ each under normal circumstances )

Wilko dextrose I think 5£ for a kilo

Hops approx 8£ - 50g williamette 50g citra

I know it's quite a lot but I'm sort of trying a few things

 

[clib]

2 cans of feeling hoppy from wilkos (a gift to me I wouldn't use 2 cans of kit from wilkos at 16£ each under normal circumstances )

Wilko dextrose I think 5£ for a kilo

Hops approx 8£ - 50g williamette 50g citra

I know it's quite a lot but I'm sort of trying a few things

Dextrose is generally around £2 a kilo, Wilko similar I think.

It just seems a lot for a brew. If you could manage a boil, to obtain bitterness, you could slash the cost massively. MJ does 1.2kg of LME for a fiver. Three of those would get you to the same OG, with a kilo of dextrose, for £17. It's good quality LME too. I realise the kits were a gift, just pointing out you can halve the cost and probably improve the quality too. I often use plain extract and boost it with a mini mash of of 1 to 2kg grain. Which lowers the cost and improves the final product, and is easy on your cooker. Takes more time obviously.